MICHELINE VARAS

Micheline Varas joined Customplan Financial Advisors in 1994, where she currently holds the position of Sr. Vice President, Living Benefits as well as Managing Partner of Customplan’s new Ontario division.

She began her career in the Financial Services Industry over 20 years ago and has developed a solid reputation working in conjunction with several insurers and their respective underwriters. Micheline has grown her personal practice and that of others by specializing in joint work opportunities. She is a consulting resource to financial advisors, large institutions and corporations on executive compensation and pension maximization planning.  Micheline looks forward to helping Advisors maximize their practices.

She has extensive experience assisting the brokerage community as well as personal and corporate clients with creative, cost and tax effective solutions and concepts specifically in the areas of Income Replacement, Critical Illness, Long Term Care Insurance. She is the first Canadian recipient of the GBDS (Group Benefits Disability Specialist) designation.

A current Top of the Table (MDRT) member, she has numerous industry and non-industry publications, holds various training and educational events and has been a speaker at numerous international congresses (including The Million Dollar Round Table). Micheline is one of the founding moderators for the Canadian Initiative for Elder Planning Studies.